Quotes About Approximation

As painful as it is, pain cannot be communicated except by approximation, which means that any description of pain requires imagination.

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

aun sin certeza, los problemas imposibles de resolver pueden, sin embargo, resolverse de manera aproximada

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

A type system can be regarded as calculating a kind of static approximation to the run-time behaviours of the terms in a program.

It is of the very nature of a high ideal to be unattainable, to admit only of approximation; and one of the highest compliments that can be paid to Christianity is that, when purely presented, it is apt to seem a great deal too good for the creatures to whom it is addressed.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Swag?" "Scientific wild ass guess.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Me? Never in life!' said Smith, giving them his familiar beam of amiability: only now with a ragged carelessness, a desultory approximation, like a man who briefly raises a mask on a stick to his face but cannot be bothered to line up the eye holes. Septimus and Hendrick glanced at each other involuntarily, to share the dismay that each for different reasons was feeling.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

When we are asked to swear in American courts of law—that we will tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"—we are being asked the impossible. It is simply beyond our powers. Our memories are fallible; even scientific truth is merely an approximation; and we are ignorant about nearly all of the Universe. Nevertheless, a life may depend on our testimony.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

Rigid ranking based on minuscule differences misleads rather than informs. Rounding and approximation is superior to unwarranted and unnecessary precision. Doubt, caution, and incessant questioning are in order—but so is the insistence on quantifying the complex realities of the modern world. If we are to understand many unruly realities, if we are to base our decisions on the best available information, then there is no substitute for this pursuit.